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Mountain rebels : East Tennessee Confederates and the Civil War, 1860-1870 / W. Todd Groce.

Summary:

"A bastion of Union support during the Civil War, East Tennessee was also home to Confederate sympathizers who took up the Southern cause until the bitter end. W. Todd Groce paints a clearer picture of the region's Confederates than has previously been available, examining why they chose secession over union and revealing why they have become so invisible to us today. Drawing extensively on primary sources - newspapers, diaries, government reports - Groce allows the voices of these mountain rebels finally to be heard. Groce explains the economic forces and the family and political ties to the Deep South that motivated the East Tennessee Confederates reluctantly to join the fight for Southern independence."--Back cover.

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Record details

ISBN: 1572330570
ISBN: 9781572330573
ISBN: 1572330937
ISBN: 9781572330931
Physical Description: xviii, 218 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Publisher: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [1999]
Copyright: ©1999

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-210) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

List of illustrations -- List of tables -- Preface -- Land that can flow with milk and honey?-- They made me a Rebel -- The social origins of East Tennessee Confederate leadership -- East Tennesseans are willing to fight -- Damned stinking cotton oligarchy -- How I wish we could have peace -- We are certainly now treading on a volcano -- Epilogue: they never hoped to do great things -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.